The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately assume! Tune in to hear about them all!

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Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet

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Jesus Christ, my dusty socialist,

“There’s enough sun for everyone,” you state,

your crown chipped like a front tooth

after a bar fight. Behind you a red curtain.

Excerpt of Ephphatha by Spencer Reece

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Georgia talks to Matt Sitman, host of the podcast Know Your Enemy, about Pope Leo XIV's recent comments about the algorithm, and why so much of his papacy seems concerned with the cultural impact of AI. 

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The Pope and AI

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suck up stork torso

into the jet engine

like a fork in the throat so the engine goes

yolo bogo putt-putt

flashing its famous lights like

teeth tho

excerpt of Day of Being by Joyelle McSweeney

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With the help of listener submissions and the insight of experts Drs Casey Fiesler and Alex Hanna, Senior Producer Hans Buetow investigates how people resist the integration of AI into the workplace, why folks might feel hesitant to broadcast that resistance, and why this topic feels so different from just a year ago. 

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AI At Work? In This Economy?

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Of course there are victims in this poem:

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victim you are here victim victim 

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Excerpt of History by Tracy K Smith

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Mike talks to security researchers Jan Pennekamp and Johannes Lohmoller about how many academics are allegedly doxxing themselves in the process of publishing their own research, and why it’s so hard to get sensitive, secretive information off the internet after it lands there. 

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Originally published on April 26th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. 

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The American Car 

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Georgia talks with automotive journalist Rory Carroll about the memetic rise of the Renault Twingo, its debut on the racing game Gran Turismo, and what the popularity of this dorky car says about online car culture. 

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The Happiest Car On The Internet

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Revving an engine to Steal attention.

Flirting cool furniture with blithe lids Closed.

A tidy splash on a mirror. A Fear

Of belonging an avoidance of Cleaving to Incompletion

As of a flash as of hit by a flash

Or an echo

Of an echo of a speech into stones.

Tone deaf stick lashings who

Spoke, along school railings

Paramount Noise

Excerpt of Stranger, by Cris Cheek

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Senior producer Hans Buetow and contributing producer Kurt White tackle a new type of post - people making content out of the things they inherit from dead people. They talk with Nikki from Dad’s Vinyl Stash, and speculate about whether or not these new posts are leading to a new way of mourning.

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Producer Audrey talks with Mols Sauter and Erin Kissane about what AI hallucinations actually are.

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